..A 10-question screening scale of psychological distress and a six-question short-form scale embedded within the 10-question scale were developed for the redesigned US National Health Interview Survey (NHIS)...

Development and validation of a screening instrument for bipolar spectrum disorder: the Mood Disorder Questionnaire

..For a meaningful comparison, quality criteria for measurement properties are needed. Our aim was to develop quality criteria for design, methods, and outcomes of studies on the development and evaluation of health status questionnaires...

An inventory for measuring clinical anxiety: psychometric properties

A T BeckJ Consult Clin Psychol 56:893-7. 1988

Psychometric properties of the strengths and difficulties questionnaire

..To describe the psychometric properties of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), a brief measure of the prosocial behavior and psychopathology of 3-16-year-olds that can be completed by parents, teachers, or youths...

Interpretation of changes in health-related quality of life: the remarkable universality of half a standard deviation

..Public Law 102-321 established a block grant for adults with "serious mental illness" (SMI) and required the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to develop a method to estimate the prevalence of SMI...

PedsQL 4.0: reliability and validity of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory version 4.0 generic core scales in healthy and patient populations

..The aim was to clarify and standardize terminology and definitions of measurement properties by reaching consensus among a group of experts and to develop a taxonomy of measurement properties relevant for evaluating health instruments...

The COSMIN checklist for assessing the methodological quality of studies on measurement properties of health status measurement instruments: an international Delphi study

..However, instruments for identifying and monitoring somatic symptoms are few in number and not widely used. Therefore, we examined the validity of a brief measure of the severity of somatic symptoms...

Comparison of the minimally important difference for two health state utility measures: EQ-5D and SF-6D

Stephen J WaltersHealth Economics and Decision Science, School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, UKQual Life Res 14:1523-32. 2005

..Empirical work is required to determine what the smallest change is in utility scores that can be regarded as important and whether this change in utility value is constant across measures and conditions...

..9% of the variance. In general, the Iranian version of the SF-36 performed well and the findings suggest that it is a reliable and valid measure of health related quality of life among the general population...

The Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS): development and UK validation

..This article describes the development and validation of a new scale, comprised only of positively worded items relating to different aspects of positive mental health: the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (WEMWBS)...

Predictive validity of a medication adherence measure in an outpatient setting

US valuation of the EQ-5D health states: development and testing of the D1 valuation model

James W ShawTobacco Control Research Branch, Behavioral Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USAMed Care 43:203-20. 2005

..The EQ-5D is a brief, multiattribute, preference-based health status measure. This article describes the development of a statistical model for generating US population-based EQ-5D preference weights...

The World Health Organization Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale (ASRS): a short screening scale for use in the general population

..05) with both the OHIP-49 and the OHIP-14. While it will be important to replicate these findings in other populations, the findings suggest that the OHIP-14 has good reliability, validity and precision...

The KIDSCREEN-52 quality of life measure for children and adolescents: psychometric results from a cross-cultural survey in 13 European countries

Ulrike Ravens-SiebererSchool of Public Health, WHO Collaborating Center for Child and Adolescent Health Promotion, University of Bielefeld, GermanyValue Health 11:645-58. 2008

..This study assesses the reliability and validity of the European KIDSCREEN-52 generic health-related quality of life (HRQoL) questionnaire for children and adolescents...

..The purpose of this study was to examine the multilevel psychometric properties of the survey...

The Assessment of Quality of Life (AQoL) instrument: a psychometric measure of health-related quality of life

G HawthorneDepartment of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Melbourne, AustraliaQual Life Res 8:209-24. 1999

..Scaling it for economic evaluation using utilities is being undertaken. Respondents have indicated the AQoL is easy to understand and is quickly completed. Its initial properties suggest it may be widely applicable...

..The widespread use of HUI facilitates the interpretation of results and permits comparisons of disease and treatment outcomes, and comparisons of long-term sequelae at the local, national and international levels...

Is the CVI an acceptable indicator of content validity? Appraisal and recommendations

..Q. and exhibited inter-rater reliability on the order of 0.8. The SRS is a valid quantitative measure of autistic traits, feasible for use in clinical settings and for large-scale research studies of autism spectrum conditions...

Developing a new self-reported scale of oral health outcomes for 5-year-old children (SOHO-5)

..This study aimed to develop and assess the reliability and validity of a new self-reported oral health related quality of life measure, the Scale of Oral Health Outcomes for 5-year-old children (SOHO-5), in the UK...

Hospital Anxiety and Depression (HAD) scale: factor structure, item analyses and internal consistency in a large population

A MykletunFaculty of Psychology, University of Bergen, Bergen, NorwayBr J Psychiatry 179:540-4. 2001

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Validation of the NPI-Q, a brief clinical form of the Neuropsychiatric Inventory

D I KauferDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pennsylvania, USAJ Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 12:233-9. 2000

..The NPI-Q provides a brief, reliable, informant-based assessment of neuropsychiatric symptoms and associated caregiver distress that may be suitable for use in general clinical practice...

Distinguishing between the validity and utility of psychiatric diagnoses

Robert KendellDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioural Science, University of Western Australia, Perth, AustraliaAm J Psychiatry 160:4-12. 2003

..The meaning of the terms "validity" and "utility" as they apply to psychiatric diagnoses is examined...

Measurement of empathy among Japanese medical students: psychometrics and score differences by gender and level of medical education

..To examine psychometric properties of a Japanese translation of the Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy (JSPE), and to study differences in empathy scores between men and women, and students in different years of medical school...

Maternal anxiety during the transition to parenthood: a prospective study

..The study also assessed i) the validity of the STAI for antenatal use in an Australian sample and ii) the relative utility of the MINI-Plus and STAI scales as antenatal measures of risk for postnatal anxiety and mood disorders...

Are screening instruments valid for psychotic-like experiences? A validation study of screening questions for psychotic-like experiences using in-depth clinical interview

Kimberly WebsterCenter on Outcomes, Research and Education, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Evanston, Illinois, United StatesHealth Qual Life Outcomes 1:79. 2003

..Available scoring, normative data and information on meaningful change now allow one to interpret results in the context of a growing literature base...

On the validity of the Beck Depression Inventory. A review

P RichterDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Heidelberg, GermanyPsychopathology 31:160-8. 1998

..Since most studies are oriented along the criteria of the classical test theory, our review will discuss to what extent the BDI meets these criteria...

The effect of stimulus strength on the speed and accuracy of a perceptual decision

John PalmerDepartment of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USAJ Vis 5:376-404. 2005

..76) and healthy controls (r=0.90). These psychometric properties make the BACS a promising tool for assessing cognition repeatedly in patients with schizophrenia, especially in clinical trials of cognitive enhancement...

Validation of a general measure of treatment satisfaction, the Treatment Satisfaction Questionnaire for Medication (TSQM), using a national panel study of chronic disease

..The objective of this study was to develop and psychometrically evaluate a general measure of patients' satisfaction with medication, the Treatment Satisfaction Questionnaire for Medication (TSQM)...

The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ)--further evidence for its reliability and validity in a community sample of Dutch children and adolescents

..Subthreshold autistic social impairments are known to aggregate in the family members of autistic probands; therefore, we conducted this study to examine the intergenerational transmission of such traits in the general population...

The CarerQol instrument: a new instrument to measure care-related quality of life of informal caregivers for use in economic evaluations

..To replicate and extend work on the psychometric properties of the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED), a child and parent self-report instrument used to screen for children with anxiety disorders...

Social support for healthy behaviors: scale psychometrics and prediction of weight loss among women in a behavioral program

..0% lost weight), perhaps because the group-based programs provided support lacking from friendships. Psychometrics for support subscales were excellent; initial support was rare; and the differential roles of friend vs...

An international field study of the EORTC QLQ-PR25: a questionnaire for assessing the health-related quality of life of patients with prostate cancer

..This study compares the reliability, factorial validity and convergent and known group validity of the self-report and parent-report versions of the HRQoL KINDL-R questionnaire for children and adolescents...

..The aim of this study was to examine the underlying dimensions and psychometric properties of the questionnaire in Dutch hospital settings, and to compare these results with the original questionnaire used in USA hospital settings...

The psychometric validity of the NEI VFQ-25 for use in a low-vision population

Validation of PHQ-2 and PHQ-9 to screen for major depression in the primary care population

Bruce ArrollDepartment of General Practice and Primary Health Care University of Auckland, Auckland, New ZealandAnn Fam Med 8:348-53. 2010

..Using a reference standard, we aimed to validate the 2- and 9-question Patient Health Questionnaires (PHQ-2 and PHQ-9) in primary care settings. The PHQ-2 comprises the first 2 questions of the PHQ-9...

Screening for depression and anxiety disorders in primary care patients

..019). CONCLUSIONS: We conclude that SHE is common in cirrhosis. The natural history of SHE is worse in patients with advanced cirrhosis and SHE probably predisposes the cirrhotic patient to overt hepatic encephalopathy...

A W WuDepartment of Health Policy and Management, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USAQual Life Res 6:481-93. 1997

..The interpretation of scores is facilitated by an explanation in terms meaningful to the intended audience. Research is needed to compare the MOS-HIV to other strategies for HRQoL assessment in early HIV disease...

..combined with the interdisciplinary strengths of the assembled research team (developmental psychopathology, psychometrics, qualitative and quantitative research in the South African context, cross- cultural psychiatry and medical ..

..Item development will be iterative, with items generated and reviewed by a team of experts in psychometrics, physician-patient communication, health communication, language comprehension and cancer...

..that can likely increase the power of treatment effect detection by an order of magnitude over traditional psychometrics. Our project will build on this finding by developing novel biomarkers that examine hippocampal anatomy with ..

..will conduct a clinic based study of low-income Mexican-American mothers of preschoolers to evaluate the psychometrics of new instruments and determine associations among parental beliefs and mediation of TV viewing, child TV ..

..and its process across different developmental stages from early childhood to early adulthood), (2) psychometrics and latent structure modeling (growth mixture modeling and structural equation modeling), (3) the social ..

..In addition to the specific researc proposed in the 3 research projects, an administrative core, a statistics/psychometrics core and a training/pilot program core will further synergize the projects...

..My Career Development Plan combines didactic coursework, tutorials, and hands-on training in psychology and psychometrics, genetics, cardiology, biostatistics, and health organization management to support my Research Plan...

..focused on skills development in mixed quantitative and qualitative research methods, advanced ASL, and psychometrics, including issues related to translation and adaptation of English language tools for use with non-English ..

..We have assembled a diverse group of investigators with expertise in geriatrics, ethics, nursing and psychometrics. The research team will be advised by a Clinician Advisory Panel, including ICU physicians, a social worker ..

..We will test several hypotheses and hope to illustrate statistical techniques for optimizing the robustness of the psychometric data that will be collected in future clinical trials, whether alone or in conjunction with imaging. ..

..possess expertise in geriatrics and aging research, the evaluation of cognitive function including advanced psychometrics, the pathological mechanisms of age related neurodegeneration, and research in the intensive care unit setting ..

..skills In study design, analysis, and interpretation of results, 3) learn how to measure quality of life and psychometrics to assess long-term outcomes for children with neurodevelopmental disorders, 4) learn neurobiology ..

..collaborators with a proven track-record of multi-site ASD research and expertise in measure development and psychometrics. The AIM represents a novel measurement approach in the autism field and is highly relevant to clinical care ..

..of this conference is to contribute to the prevention of obesity among children, by advancing the theory and psychometrics of measures of general parenting styles and specific parenting practices in regard to the major energy balance ..

..The results of this project will afford use of the RDOS as the major outcome to ascertain patient distress or comfort across care settings in future studies of patients who are near death and unable to provide a dyspnea self-report. ..

..the mentorship of established investigators in the areas of hematology, emergency medicine pain management, psychometrics and addiction the candidate proposes a career development program that addresses the applicants'long- ..

..testing of the four components that comprise the Wrap-TMS with a diverse group of users nationwide;(2) Assess psychometrics of Wrap-TMS items and scales;(3) Pilot test and evaluate the utility of the "team dashboard" reporting ..

..which brings together experts in the fields of anesthesiology, surgery, nursing, aural rehabilitation, and psychometrics, will yield data and methodology necessary for developing teaching and assessment strategies for training team ..

..propose to develop competing multidimensional pain measurement methods derived from psychophysics and psychometrics and to compare these methods with their existing unidimensional method as well as with one another...

..We will integrate knowledge from developmental psycholinguistics, speech pathology, and psychometrics to design an instrument that moves beyond traditional measures of language ability to assess processes that ..

..background and promote her skills in clinical sleep research, polysomnography, neuropsychologic testing, and psychometrics. Her independent investigative development will be accomplished by the following activities: 1) implementation ..

This two-phase study will adapt and evaluate the psychometrics of a culturally relevant measure of diabetes self-management measure for Hispanics with type 2 diabetes that will be used in future studies that test culturally sensitive ..

This two-phase study will develop and evaluate the psychometrics of a culturally relevant measure of symptom self-care and pilot data collection strategies that will be used in a larger study to investigate cultural differences and ..

..This project consists of three complementary studies. Study A will explore the psychometrics of treatment motivation measures as a function of drug users' treatment careers and other characteristics...

..the different types of inhalants (solvents, aerosols, gases, and nitrites) and to quantitatively estimate the psychometrics of a general inhalants category of abuse and dependence diagnoses, preliminarily study separate diagnoses for ..